IN TODAY'S REPORT: Today we're gonna party like it's 1989...in Alaska...because it's the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Alaska; and the 20th anniversary of the eruption of Alaska's Mount Redoubt, now blowing up again (and in Bobby Jindal's) face; and the 20th anniversary of the global agreement to save the ozone layer, thus saving Alaska, and everywhere else in the world...PLUS: Poo and Pee Power gives "bio-gas" a whole new meaning...All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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Indeed, the "human error" tale was the hook used by the Bush-stacked Supreme Court to slash the punitive damages awarded against Exxon by 90%, from $5 billion, to half a billion for 30,000 Natives and fishermen. Chief Justice John Roberts erased almost all of the payment due with the la-dee-dah comment, "What more can a corporation do?"

Oceans awash in toxic seas of plastic: Go down to the beach today and you'll find plenty of garbage among the sand — but that's nothing compared with the continent-sized whirlpools of lethal waste out there beyond the horizon

I’ll have yinz know me daughter was born in AK during the ex Valdez. I’d been fishing and working there for a while. Get this, a friend of mine came up with idea for the boom to surround the oil. Somebody took the idea and patented it. He got nothing and the creep who did that made bunches of money. He was a Kodiak fisherman, trying to help save his livelihood.

After reading the Palast article, I'd like to clarify the boom I was talking about in my above comment was made from an absorbant material not the rubber ones the oil companies were not using when it happened. Another issue related to the spill that no one ever talks about is the fact that the oil that was allowed to sink turns basically to asphalt paving the sea floor. I learned about that while talking to one of their spill experts who had worked on the spill in the English Channel in 1978.